THE ADMINISTRATION: New Man for Revenue

Appointed to succeed T. Coleman Andrews as Commissioner of Internal Revenue: Russell Chase Harrington, 65, for 15 years resident partner in the national accounting firm of Ernst and Ernst, with his office in Providence.

Harrington, a strapping public accountant who enjoys golf and fishing, quit the old Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1911 to start work as a truck driver for the Adams Express Co. He taught himself accounting in his spare time, and was good enough at it by 1917 to serve as a supervisor for the Army Ordnance cost accounting section in New York. In 1920 Harrington began his 35-year connection with Ernst and Ernst. Like his predecessor and friend, T. Coleman Andrews, Harrington has been prominent in the American Institute of Accountants and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, of which he is now treasurer. "I have no preconceived notions about the job," said Harrington last week about internal revenue, adding that he was a Republican, "but not a politician."